New Travels in the United States of the America, 1788 /

New Travels in the United States of the America, 1788 / / J. P. Brissot de Warville; ed. by Durand Echeverria.

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VerfasserIn:
Brissot de Warville, J. P.,
HerausgeberIn:
Echeverria, Durand,
TeilnehmendeR:
Echeverria, Durand.
Vamos, Mara Soceanu.
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1964
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library ; 83
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Physical Description:1 online resource (447 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PREFACE
  • TABLE OF CURRENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EUROPE
  • TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES
  • LETTERS FROM M. C LAVI ÈRE TO M. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
  • I Plan for the Study of the Political, Civil, Military, and Legislative Systems of the Free Americans
  • II Nature of the Soil, Agricultural Products, Immigration, etc.
  • III Plan for a Colony to Be Established in America
  • IV [Sites for French Settlements]
  • V [Opportunities for Investments in Land]
  • VI The American Debt
  • PLAN OF INVESTIGATION TO BE FOLLOWED DURING MY TRAVELS IN AMERICA
  • LETTERS OF J . P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
  • 1 Le Havre
  • 2 The Commerce of Le Havre
  • 3 The Voyage to America
  • 4 Boston
  • 5 Journey from Boston to New York
  • 6 Journey from Boston to New York by Way of Providence
  • 7 New York
  • 8 Journey from New York to Philadelphia
  • 9 Journey to Burlington and Visit to Mr. Temple Franklin
  • 10 A Visit to a Quaker Farm
  • 11 A Visit from the Good Warner Mifflin
  • 12 A Quaker Funeral and a Quaker Meeting
  • 13 Visit to a Bettering House
  • 14 The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
  • 15 Benjamin Franklin
  • 16 An Invention for Navigating Against the Current–Thoughts on the Character of Americans and Englishmen
  • 17 The Agricultural Society and the Library
  • 18 The Market in Philadelphia and the Price of Foodstuffs
  • 19 The General Assembly of Pennsylvania and a Description of Farm Owned by a Frenchman
  • 20 A Journey by Two Frenchmen to the Ohio
  • 21 The School for Negroes in Philadelphia–American Authors Who Have Written in Defense of Negroes
  • 22 Efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade in the United States
  • 23 The Laws for the Emancipation of Slaves Enacted by the Various States
  • 24 The General Conditon of Negroes in the United States
  • 25 Maple Sugar as a Substitute for Cane Sugar
  • 26 A Plan to Transport American Negroes Back to Africa
  • 27 Philadelphia
  • 28 Farming Life and the Settlement of the Frontier in Pennsylvania
  • 29 Climate and Disease in Pennsylvania
  • 30 Common Diseases in the United States
  • 31 Life Expectancy in the United States
  • 32 The Philadelphia Prison
  • 33 Quakers and Their Customs
  • 34 Attacks Upon Quakers by Various Writers
  • 35 The Growth of the Society of Friends–Their Religious Principles and System of Discipline
  • 36 Quaker Political Principles
  • 37 Journey to Mount Vernon
  • 38 Observations on Maryland and Virginia
  • 39 Virginia Tobacco and Tobacco Notes
  • 40 The Shenandoah Valley
  • 41 Journey from Boston to Portsmouth
  • 42 The American Debt
  • 43 American Imports
  • 44 American Exports
  • 45 The East Indies Trade–American Foreign Trade in General
  • 46 The New Empire of the West
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter

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